Fuel Consumption for 1.9td???

[gumby6371]

Having run my 1.9td for about 18 months now I can safely say I'm getting 30-35 mpg average for town driving and a 40-45 mpg average at speed. Checked the handbook and am quite impressed that a car built in 1997 is still hitting it's quoted fuel consumption.

However

I check Auto Trader quite regularly looking for a cheap donor car for panels/trim etc and I keep seeing claims of 50-60 mpg's from a 1.9 XUD, now I quite often have my 3 year old in the car so don't (as a rule) drive like my ass is on fire but come on???.
Can you actually achieve 50-60 mpg's?
Short shifting and keeping it below the turbo band can help but 50-60mpg! Shirley it can't be done.

If it is possible it begs the question why they bothered developing the HDi

[sirwiggum]

Is that a combined MPG figure?

Usually manufactuers gear an engine to get the best results from these tests at 56mph.

Town driving and motorway driving will vary from this somewhat.

AFAIK Peugeot had to develop the HDi to pass Euro emissions rules? It was what killed off the Citroen C15 van.

[Doggy]

The 'government' combined cycle mpg figure for a 1.9 TD is about 40 mpg, & about 39 for a 2.1.
Equivalent figures for HDi's are about 48, (Hdi 90), 51, (Hdi 110) & 43.5, (2.2 HDi). All of these for manual estates, BTW.

They may not reflect what people actually get, as we all drive differently, but I reckon they are at least all measured in the same way and give a good relative indication what you can expect.

I've seen ads for 2.2 HDi's that do 'over 60 mpg at 80 mph' and so on - it's all nonsense.

[Bailes1992]

Exactly what I was getting out of mine. About 44mpg on the motorway and about 32mpg around town

[rwb]

Possible, but unlikely.
I averaged 46 in my xud.
Am doing rather better in the HDi but the mpg readout did re-educate me

Poor old C15

[FarmerPug]

i love the old c15 van its just one of them unappreciated legends.
as for the hdi i get 40 for a lot of short uneconomical trips which is good